How to change the Android emulator temporary directory

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I want to know how to change it on WINDOWS ?

Because my C:/ drive don't have enought space to support all TMP file generated !

By default, here are the temp directory on WINDOWS: (%temp%) -> C:\Documents and Settings\MyPC\Local Settings\Temp\ and extract the file on (AndroidEmulator) folder ...

On Linux here the method: http://stuf.ro/how-to-change-the-android-emulator-temporary-directory

But i am looking for way to do it on windows :(

Thank you in advance for your help.

You can follow [Possible to change where Android Virtual Devices are saved?][1]. May be get you solution from this. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2841766/possible-to-change-where-android-virtual-devices-are-saved — kablu, Apr 30 '14 at 10:56
No it's not same, .android are another story :) thank you for your time, i search to modify %temp% directly to another one :) — user3587044, Apr 30 '14 at 14:04

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '14 at 21:18

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I found on linux I can just set the ANDROID_TMP environment variable to a different directory. Have you tried that ?

answered Nov 27 '14 at 21:18

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It does not work. The temp folder seems to be hardcoded in the adb binary. – Neumann Apr 05 '15 at 17:01
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Totally works for me. "ANDROID_TMP=/path/to/tmp emulator -avd Test". – Dan Brough Apr 06 '15 at 22:38

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '15 at 17:11

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A solution could be to make a symbolic link to another location :

mklink /J "C:\Users\{you}\AppData\Local\Temp\AndroidEmulator" "{new-location}"

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